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Christo Nedev c335649629 brcm2708: Update brcm2708-gpu-fw package
Problem - rapsberry pi 3 b/b+ does not boot with bcm2710 images!

How Raspberry Pi boots Actualy?

When Raspberry is switched on GPU is activated.
1. GPU execute First stage bootloader from ROM.
First stage bootloader mount the FAT boot partition on the SD card
and execute second stage bootloader (bootcode.bin).
2. Second stage bootloader (bootcode.bin) activate SDRAM.
Load the GPU firmware (start.elf).
3. GPU firmware (start.elf)
  a) display Rainbow splash.
  b) read firmware configuration file config.txt and
     split the RAM using fixup.dat.
  c) loads a cmdline.txt
  d) enables the CPU.
  e) loads the kernel image configurable via config.txt

In your target/linux/brcm2708/image/config.txt
 493 ## kernel (string)
 494 ##     Alternative name to use when loading kernel.
 495 ##
 496 #kernel=""
it is not configured!

But in your target/linux/brcm2708/image/Makefile
  75   KERNEL_IMG := kernel8.img
  76   DEVICE_TITLE := Raspberry Pi 3B/3B+
you have kernel8.img

GPU Firmware search order by default for a PI 3 is:
kernel8.img if found boot in 64 bit mode
kernel8-32.img if found boot in 32 bit mode
kernel7.img if found boot in 32 bit mode
kernel.img if found boot in 32 bit mode

But a PI 2 will start the search from kernel7.img and
a PI 1 only looks for kernel.img.

Оbviously the kernel has been found.
But something goes wrong and the device is restarted.

In your package/kernel/brcm2708-gpu-fw/Makefile
  11 PKG_NAME:=brcm2708-gpu-fw
  12 PKG_VERSION:=2017-08-08
  13 PKG_RELEASE:=e7ba7ab135f5a68b2c00a919ea9ac8d5528a5d5b
boot loader is 10 monts old.

In conclusion, the best way to solve the problem is
to update the boot loader!

Fixup_cd.dat and start_cd.elf files are not necessary.
These are used when GPU memory is set to 16 MB, which disables
some GPU features.
I did not remove them just in case!

cheers

Signed-off-by: Christo Nedev <christo.nedev@gmail.com>
2018-06-07 09:00:13 +02:00
.github merge: github: use OpenWrt in issue/pr templates 2018-01-03 20:36:57 +01:00
config config: fix ARM64 dependency check 2018-02-10 20:16:39 +01:00
include kernel: bump 4.14 to 4.14.48 2018-06-05 22:54:00 +03:00
package brcm2708: Update brcm2708-gpu-fw package 2018-06-07 09:00:13 +02:00
scripts scripts: Replace obsolete POSIX tmpnam in slugimage.pl with File::Temp function 2018-06-05 10:07:42 -04:00
target ramips: fix reboot with W25Q256 with 4-address-mode enabled 2018-06-07 02:34:13 +02:00
toolchain gcc: remove support for version 6.3.0 2018-06-05 09:27:33 +02:00
tools tools: zlib: do not hardcode the install prefix in zlib.pc 2018-05-24 17:07:10 +02:00
.gitattributes add .gitattributes to prevent the git autocrlf option from messing with CRLF/LF in files 2012-05-08 13:30:49 +00:00
.gitignore .gitignore: add .project & .cproject for eclipse users 2018-01-17 11:07:17 +01:00
BSDmakefile add missing copyright header 2007-02-26 01:05:09 +00:00
Config.in merge: base: update base-files and basic config 2017-12-08 19:41:18 +01:00
feeds.conf.default feeds: switch git.lede-project.org URLs to git.openwrt.org 2018-01-16 16:59:22 +01:00
LICENSE finally move buildroot-ng to trunk 2016-03-20 17:29:15 +01:00
Makefile merge: base: update base-files and basic config 2017-12-08 19:41:18 +01:00
README merge: base: update base-files and basic config 2017-12-08 19:41:18 +01:00
rules.mk imagebuilder: reuse rootfs preparation from rootfs.mk 2018-03-07 09:59:08 +01:00

This is the buildsystem for the OpenWrt Linux distribution.

Please use "make menuconfig" to choose your preferred
configuration for the toolchain and firmware.

You need to have installed gcc, binutils, bzip2, flex, python, perl, make,
find, grep, diff, unzip, gawk, getopt, subversion, libz-dev and libc headers.

Run "./scripts/feeds update -a" to get all the latest package definitions
defined in feeds.conf / feeds.conf.default respectively
and "./scripts/feeds install -a" to install symlinks of all of them into
package/feeds/.

Use "make menuconfig" to configure your image.

Simply running "make" will build your firmware.
It will download all sources, build the cross-compile toolchain, 
the kernel and all choosen applications.

To build your own firmware you need to have access to a Linux, BSD or MacOSX system
(case-sensitive filesystem required). Cygwin will not be supported because of
the lack of case sensitiveness in the file system.


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